Sisters

In collaboration with Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation, Music Box Records proudly follows their IFMCA award-winning release of Bernard Herrmann’s 1976 Oscar-nominated score for Obsession by now going back to his collaboration, one that relaunched his career as well as boldly announcing a new Master of Suspense. Almost forgotten when editor Paul Hirsch was inspired to use Psycho as temporary music, the resulting collaboration between him, filmmaker Brian De Palma and Herrmann showed just how much diabolically inventive energy was left to his talent with 1973’s Sisters. 

Weathering the storm that the legendarily combustible musician brought to this tale of an innocent model and her possession by a seemingly dead twin (both played by Margot Kidder). The result of Herrmann’s outraged inspiration was one of his great, theme-filled scores. Particularly striking as it brought a new Moog electronic sensibility to join with his symphonic swings between romance and terror, Sisters once again brought the composer into the Hollywood eye while joltingly announcing the arrival of a stylistically fresh, homage-filled auteur of modern suspense cinema. 

The Sisters’ complete scoring session elements proving lost after an exhaustive search in collaboration with the Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation, Music Box Records has painstakingly remastered the original CD edition to reprise its original album program with a knife-striking, bell-ringing orchestral malice that no mad doctor can rend asunder. Extensive liner notes by Daniel Schweiger (Obsession) features a new interview with Paul Hirsch on the turbulent scoring process with Bernard Herrmann that brought an iconically thrilling legend back to Hollywood life. The CD release is limited to 1000 units.

Tracklist

1. Prelude (Main Title) (1:36)
2. The Dressing Room (1:19)
3. The Ferry / The Apartment / Breton (3:40)
4. The Scar / The Pills / Duo (2:50)
5. The Cake / The Car / The Candles (2:40)
6. Phillip's Murder / Window View (3:05)
7. Clean-Up / Split Screen / The Search (2:58)
8. The Plastic Bag / The Dress / The Cake Box (2:48)
9. Apartment House / The Windows (2:44)
10. The Couch (1:06)
11. The Siamese Twins (2:36)
12. The Solution / The Clinic / Hypnotic Trance (3:54)
13. The Dream / The Syringe (4:21)
14. Separation Nightmare / Breton's Murder / Dirge (4:08)
15. Aftermath / Finale (2:16)

Total Time • 42:11